Miraculous Life!

Miraculous Life! – We all think we know what a miracle is! Do we? At most we can give few examples from religion.

• Jesus walked on water
• Krishna lifted a mountain with his little finger

You will find many more instances. The moot question will remain – do we really know what a miracle is? Frankly speaking, many of us do not even know what it is!

As to me, I only know of miracles. Other than miracles, I know nothing. The fact that I am seeing yet another year in my life in 2025 is a miracle. It is an exceptional miracle to walk in the streets of the 600-year-old city of the Nizams, Hyderabad. Sitting in my office look through the morning mist and over the roofs of houses towards the celebrated Charminar is yet another beautiful miracle.

I walk bare feet in the rice fields splashing thick dark wet mud till my knees and to feel the thick dark mud slipping away through my toes is another miracle I witnessed recently. For a simple person like me, it is a miracle to sit under the neem tree on a hot summer afternoon feeling the cool neem breeze. Having hot ‘poories’ and the tasty curries at the Taj Mahal Hotel for lunch followed by the ‘Meenakshi Saada Paan’ is yet another blessed miracle. God has been very generous in my case, for everywhere I see, I witness only His miracles.

Sitting in the shared autorickshaw, look at the strangers opposite me; what can I call this divine experience but a miracle? There is a huge neem tree at my house. Many its branches hang low. Two beautiful sparrows arrive every evening for their night’s shelter & rest. I look at them every evening. What can this be? If this is not a miracle, then nothing is!

The beauty of sunset, the brightness of the stars in the dark sky and the songs of the night birds – all are miracles to me. The sunrise, the flight of beautiful birds, the song of coocoo, animals feeding in the fields, and a red rose with all the dew drops on it – I am fortunate to witness these miracles. For me, every second of light and shade is a miracle; every second of darkness is a miracle.

The falling of an apple, the earth going around the sun, the temple bells early morning, every cubic inch of space and every square yard on the surface of the earth are miracles. The dancing waves of the sea is the continuity of miracle; the fishes that swim in there and a lonely ship with sailors in it … can there be stranger miracles?

Young children in their school uniforms with their heavy school bags strapped to their shoulders waiting patiently for their yellow school bus is a miracle. The Swiggy delivery man getting the ordered goods delivered within 10 minutes is a miracle. The cobbler mending my seven year old Bata shoe, making it fit for yet another year is a miracle. I ask you, what miracles can there be, when life in itself is an eternal miracle?

About the Author

Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.

Dr. Reddy can be reached at: raja66gopal@gmail.com